School’s out. The sun’s out. The sky is blue. Birds are singing. Scotland’s tabloid journalists are rushing to tell us which exotic place it’s hotter than. (I just asked the Panther and it’s Morocco apparently. The streets are athrong with citizens enjoying the warm – like being on holiday, only you have to go to […]
How much is more than I can chew?
Dear driver, this undertaking must stop
I passed my driving test more than half my life ago. 1988 if you must know. Second attempt, as it happens. All the best drivers pass second time, so they say. I could never commit the stopping distances to memory and, in any case, they were entirely meaningless as I can’t judge distances from numbers. […]
What would you say to your 18-year-old self?
Posh Spice started it with her recent advice to her younger self. Then the Daily Record asked a few writers, including me, if they wanted to share their wisdom. Here’s what I wrote: Dear Ellen YOU’RE 18 and you’ve almost finished your first year at university. While you think you’re invincible and that you […]
PGL Dalguise: The kind of holiday that makes you rethink everything
It was risky, I’ll admit. I booked us a five-day break at PGL’s centre in Perthshire by way of a compromise. It’s very tricky finding something that will suit even some of us most of the time. There’s the 16-year-old culture vulture, his 14-year-old brother who only wants to go fast, the six-year-old with the […]